Iprqvefvlent in feeding percussion-caps



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A. J. FRENCH. FEEDING PERCUSSION CAPS.

Patented Dec. 22

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A.J. FRENGH. FEEDING PERCUSSION GAPS.

No. 85,224. Patented Dec. 22, 1868.

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A. J. FRENCH, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

EMPRQVEENT IN FEEDENG- PERCUSSlQN-CAPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent Nos gtgfid, dated December22, 1868.

rt all-whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, A. J. FRENCH, of Bridgeport, in the county ofFairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inFeed for Percussion-Cap Machine; and I do hereby declare the following,when taken in connection with the accompanying resent, in

Figure 1, a side view; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section; Fig. 3, an insideview, the hopper removed; Fig. 4, a section on line as m.

This invention relates to an improvementin the feed of machines used forthe manfacture i of percussion-caps, but is alike applicableto othersimilar purposes.

In the manufacture of percussion-caps, cartridge-shells, and othersimilar articles struck or drawn up, the edge requires to be trimmed.'lfo do this, the articles must be delivered to he trimming apparatus,the open end always in the same direction. Heretofore this has been doneby hand, the articles-fed singly into the machine; but by my improvementthe articles are delivered from the mass, so as to make the feedingautomatic; and my invention consists in the'arrangement of a feedwheelprovided with hooked teeth, arranged so that, revolving in a mass of thearticles to be delivered, thehooks will enter the open. ends of thearticles, and-holding them upon the hooks, deliver them into the tubetheclosed end downward.

To enable others to construct and use my improvement, I will proceed todescribe the same as illustrated in the accompanying draw-, lu s.

- h is aplate, formed witha channel, 13, near its edge, and placed inimmediate connection with the hopper N, or other receptacle for a 'sodelivered.

The hopper N- is arranged so as ,to present quantity of caps, and sothat a supply of caps or other articles will lie constantly against therevolution of the wheel, and in such relative position to the channel Bthat the articles.

which lie in the hopper and fall into the said; j channel will be caughtby the hooks entering the open end of the article, as denoted at E andF, and to such, as it strikes upon the closed end, as at G, will carryup until it of its own gravity tips from the hook and falls back intothe hopper, while those upon the hook at E and 1. will be carried up andenter a tube, H, arranged in such relative position to the hooks, andslotted so that the hooks pass centrally, or nearly so, through thesaid'tube, thus delivering the articles, their closed end into the tube, andretained in their posi tion by the proper size of the tube, are carriedto the desired the mass of caps or similar articles to the hooks, andthe hooked wheel 0 may be caused to IBXQIVG with the other part of themachin ery, so as to make the feeding automatic.

Having; fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful,and desire to so cure by Letters Patent, is-- The arrangement of thehooked carryingwheel C, with a delivering-tube, H, and a hopper'tosupply the carrying-wheel, the whole operating substantially in themanner herein set forth.

v A. JQFRENGH. Witnesses:

A. G. Hones, SMITH W .ANDERSON.

point in the machine, and

